it's the venture capital moment, but the u.s. has a -- can still have an excessively bureaucratic process for how we deal in these places and how we get into them. and i've had fellow assistant secretaries say, look, on our best day, we'll be there in a year. and so you know the normal rotation process and other things that take place that can undermine that as well. and the fourth point, on the internal needs -- and i think it's still kind of the reform that we've -- that we're looking towards -- is that we have to have a conflict lens and greater conflict experts. there's a natural tendency for people who know a place to think that they should dominate the discussion -- the policy discussion. but that's only one perspective. and one of the most prominent -- one of our most prominent ambassadors who's worked -- the middle east said, look, i've worked in this bureau for 25 years, and i never had a single change of government, so now i'm having to deal with rapid and dramatic and radical change on a daily basis, and actually, i ne